Festival of Kyoto

Object NameSculpture

Artist Naoto Yokoyama (Japanese, b. 1937)

Factory Joetsu Crystal Co., Ltd.

Made FromGlass

Date1984

Place MadeJapan, Gumma-ken, Tone; Japan, Gumma-ken, Tsukiyono

TechniqueBlown, molded, tooled, cut

SizeOverall H: 29.8 cm, W: 21.2 cm; Base Diam: 13.5 cm

Accession Number85.6.17

Credit LineGift of Naoto Yokoyama

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

Glass '84 in Japan

Not On View

Physical DescriptionTransparent colorless, light blue, lavender and green with opaque white, purple and red-orange; blown, molded, tooled and cut. Irregular vertical vessel form with triangular stem; narrow straight-sided neck of opaque white cased in colorless with orange-red lip wrap sits atop hollow, bulbous, optic-molded section of colorless with emerald green mottling; hollow section attached with light blue transparent patty of opaque white with spiraling dark purple; patty is attached while hot to a flat triangular solid cast colorless section with two side phalanges of transparent lavender, each of the three corners has irregular cut lines radiating outward; triangle attached by transparent light blue patty to wide solid circular foot patty of same glass; base is ground flat with central circular slight indentation; intermittent bubbles and irregularities throughout surface. Signed and dated on bottom of base "N. Yokoyama 1984".
Provenance

Source Naoto Yokoyama (Japanese, b. 1937) - 1985-06-21